Example sentences of "she could hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at these times , she could hold Lucy 's hand , and would melt when the pressure was returned . |
| 2 | She could hold the interest of a group of undergraduates at a tea-party and have a serious exchange of ideas with them . |
| 3 | It was quite small and she could hold it easily between her hands . |
| 4 | She could hold it there . |
| 5 | Sally felt good in it — the fur was gorgeously soft when she buried her chin in it and she thought that at least she could hold her own in the midst of all this elegance . |
| 6 | It gave her confidence and she felt sure that she could hold her own against the Italian guests . |
| 7 | Constance realised why she could hold her own in this elegant crowd : she was different because she was foreign but , more important , admirable because she was British . |
| 8 | It seemed to her that her mind was like an overfilled glass which only she could hold steady . |
| 9 | She gripped Fand almost roughly , as if she could hold her back from dying . |
| 10 | Half an hour later she could hold out no longer : she drank a cup of coffee and two glasses of cold water , put some money in her pocket and walked into St-Jean . |
| 11 | Quickly , Alina stepped around her so that she could hold Sandy 's head in both of her hands ; Sandy made a weak attempt to struggle , but it was like fighting a rock . |
| 12 | Anne still met John Redmond occasionally , and tried to keep up with world affairs so that she could hold her own when talking to him . |
| 13 | She could hold her own in the bawdy jokes and the double entendres , many of which meant nothing to Anne , although she laughed when the other girls did . |
| 14 | If she could not consume them at least she could hold them . |
| 15 | He was coming to realize that she could hold her own under fire . |
| 16 | There was a slight tremor to the hand she had raised , as if she could hold off the madness that way , and she dropped it swiftly as she absorbed the hardness of his saturnine face and the overt demand glittering hotly in his eyes . |
| 17 | This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany . |
| 18 | She felt nauseous , and , terrified she might be sick , she pushed away his hand so that she could hold her head up . |
| 19 | Fran took a slow deep breath , then another and another , but there was no way she could hold back the knifing pain . |
| 20 | She held out for a mammoth ten seconds and then , weak where he was concerned , she could hold out no longer , and collapsed weakly , clingingly , against him . |
| 21 | Rachel stared at him and wondered how much longer she could hold her breath without dying . |